HotIgneous Intruder:So much for patient-doctor/therapist confidentiality.Oh, right. He lost his rights when he:a) Joined the Armyb) gave away state secretsc) broke the law

Take your time.

I don't condone what he did but his is a said story. His family rejected him kicking him out of the house twice. He has been isolated most of his life and went into the army to find a place to belong. The army had no place for an effeminate soldier and he wound up isolated again. What he did wasn't whistle blowing, he did a data dump and gave it away. I wonder if it was a misplaced cry for help. You can condemn the crime while feeling sorry for the criminal.

saintstryfe:Well, the VA does cover therapy, hormones and surgery for transsexual people (I know a few former soldiers who were using the military as a way to hide from their reality).

But this sounds fake, personally. "Oh yeah, the guy who was just convicted of betraying his country? Yeah, he also thinks he's a chick."

Sorry, doesn't ring true given everything I've read.

That doesn't mean I don't think his punishment was justified - it was. He did it and it was serious. But this kind of backhanded stuff is what makes this case so terrible.

No, I remember the defense starting a discussion about this a while ago, then it just vanished from the case information published in news articles.

/Being a woman in a male military prison must be hell.//She can't or won't be transferred to a woman's prison until post-surgery, which is at least a year away.///I hope that the next President pardons Snowden as performing a service to America (or Obama, but I can't see that happening)////Manning on the other hand loaded a shotgun of with a scattershot of classified information and deserves punishment for stupidity if nothing else.

HotIgneous Intruder:So much for patient-doctor/therapist confidentiality.Oh, right. He lost his rights when he:a) Joined the Armyb) gave away state secretsc) broke the law

Take your time.

His being in the military aside, doctor/patient confidentiality only means they have to get a court order to view the files and if the defense brings it up in court first then they don't even need to do that.

It's still socially acceptable to laugh at trans people. Unfortunately, that last statement includes the other people behind the letters in the LGBT salad. A lot of gay men and women have the same hangups with transgenders as straight people (Q: "Wait, you want to become a woman to date women?" A: "I am a woman."). I'm with you. I just don't care. But that's because I'm lazy and don't want to spend the summer reading about transgender issues and parsing my pronouns. Imma just gonna give the transgendered people in my life the benefit of the doubt.

Well that little pronouncement, plus the cloud hovering over Assange, has certainly shed glory upon the whole Wikileaks thing.Way to go Bradley, Julian you guys totally look trustworthy and balanced now rather than ineptly socialised marginal people with sexual issues.

ethics-gradient:Well that little pronouncement, plus the cloud hovering over Assange, has certainly shed glory upon the whole Wikileaks thing.Way to go Bradley, Julian you guys totally look trustworthy and balanced now rather than ineptly socialised marginal people with sexual issues.